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NEW HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL NELLIMOOD Name : Shindu Sivan Option : English Candidate number :165/13376020

Simile

What is SIMILE? • It is a figure of speech • Used to compare two different things • By using the word “like” or “as”

Examples as • Solid as a rock • Quick as a wind • Big as a bus • Tall as a giraffe • Wise as an owl • Cold as winter • Hot as desert • Shiny as gold like • Cry like a baby • Grow like a weed • She smells like a flower • She runs like a cheetah • She swims like a dolphin • He shouted like a horn • He climbs like a monkey • He swim like a fish

Famous Simile Poem A simile poem that everyone may know is Twinkle Twinkle: “Twinkle, twinkle little star, How I wonder what you are Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky.”

Examples From Poems • My LOVE is like a RED RED ROSE _ROBERT BURNS • I WANDERED LONELY as a CLOUD _WORDSWORTH • My MISTRESS EYES are nothing like the SUN _ SHAKESPEARE

EVEN PAST FIFTY Shanta Shelke She’s past fifty; yet she’s still a little girl at heart, for whom the house is a doll’s house, and running the household a childhood game. She has travelled a long road; but her little feet are not yet fatigued. Catastrophes to her are still like the evil spirits in children’s stories whom she fights with blades of grass; wipes the sweat from her brow; hits hard; sometimes wins, sometimes loses, her sword broken.

simile CATASTROPHES TO HER ARE STILL LIKE THE EVIL SPIRITS IN CHILDREN’S STORIES

Difficult questions she has simplified for herself; fitted the tangle into a simple frame; on her face she has made distaste smile, like moonlight that makes everything smooth. But sometimes totally in despair, a flower crumpled in a fist, she rises again, smiles, or sings to herself, though hers is not a musical voice. I saw her the other day after a long time; she talked with her usual, irrepressible intensity; but i, for the first time, noted the hair fast becoming white, noted, for the first time, and with a pang, the hollowness of the froth rising above the stream of her life

simile • SHE HAS MADE DISTASTE SMILE, LIKE MOONLIGHT THAT MAKES EVERYTHING SMOOTH

Catastrophes to her are still like the evil spirits in children’s stories The figure of speech here is simile The woman in the poem takes her catastropes that is difficulties of life like evilspirits Her difficulty is likened to evil spirits in children's stories

‘She has made distaste smile, Like moonlight that makes everything smooth.’ The figure of speech here is simile. The woman in the poem conceals her distaste that is surfacing in her heart. ‘She smiles , when she is not happy’. Her smile is likened to moonlight.